People love polls. People love to argue about polls. We at the CHN Blog *heart* controversy, and quite frankly there certainly hasn’t been enough in college hockey this year. So we felt the best way to accomplish this was to create our own weekly rankings.

We know some people believe that KRACH is the be all, end all system for finding the best team. The NCAA says “unofficially” rolls with the Pairwise. Many fans flock to polls that require some sort of human intervention, where sometimes you get ridiculous votes for teams that haven’t even played yet, or are performing horrifically. We’ve seen some Ivy League schools that can remain ranked for weeks despite getting schooled multiple weekends in a row.

So we tasked ourselves to come up with something that we hope will make the college hockey picture a bit clearer, and even if it doesn’t, you can go right ahead and shoot us down in the comments as much as you’d like. We won’t feel bad.

So without further ado I present to you our first ever edition of the CHN Blog “PUCK” Rankings.

CHN Blog “PUCK” RankingsOctober 30, 2006

Rank

Team

Record

Last Week

1

Maine

6-0-0

-

2

Boston College

4-1-0

-

3

Minnesota

6-1-0

-

4

North Dakota

5-3-0

-

5

Miami

6-2-0

-

6

Wisconsin

3-3-2

-

7

Notre Dame

5-1-0

-

8

Dartmouth

2-0-0

-

9

Michigan State

3-1-0

-

10

Boston University

2-1-1

-

11

Michigan Tech

5-1-0

-

12

Michigan

4-2-0

-

13

Cornell

2-0-0

-

14

Yale

2-0-0

-

15

Clarkson

4-1-1

-

16

UMass-Amherst

2-1-1

-

These rankings have not been deemed “official” CHN Rankings by the editorial staff. Maybe someday when we prove our ultimate wisdom, but not today. Still enjoy.